From CNI-Announce:
The New Media Consortium (NMC) has released a call to action entitled A Global Imperative: The Report of the 21st Century Literacy Summit.
The report details the outcomes of an international "summit" of thought leaders in visual and digital literacy convened by the NMC, and cosponsored by Adobe Systems, the George Lucas Educational Foundation, and the MacArthur Foundation.
This world-renowned group of leaders, researchers, artists, and practitioners engaged in two days of substantive dialog around emerging trends and issues in visual and digital literacy and developed the action plan described in the report. A Global Imperative outlines five strategic priorities for visual and digital literacy, their implications, and what it will take to achieve them.
Richly illustrated with the visual record of the meeting, the monograph provides twenty-two focused recommendations for research, teacher credentialing, standards, curricula, and other initiatives o meet those priorities.
The 32-page report is free, and has been released with a Creative Commons license to facilitate its use, duplication, and broad distribution.
A full-color Adobe Acrobat version of the monograph is available at
http://www.nmc.org/pdf/Global_Imperative.pdf (1Mb, 32 pp).
Posted by Paul H at August 24, 2005 04:44 PM
